Fuzzy Justice in Swedish Child Rape Case – Again!

A 42 year old man is sentenced for raping a 14 year old girl who committed suicide shortly before she was to appear in court. He is also sentenced for a rape of an older girl, and drug offenses. The sentence is three years in prison.

The man has admitted to supplying the 14 years old, who at the time was placed in a treatment center by the Social Services in Jönköping, with amphetamines. Since the now 15-years old girl took her life before the trial, and her testimony was the only evidence that the man has forced intercourse with her, the court convicted the man on the alternate charge of sexual exploitation.

It is important to note here, that Swedish law recognizes statutory rape of children younger than 15 years old. Thus, according to the Swedish law, no evidence of force should be needed to sentence the man for rape. Due to the fuzzy justice common in Sweden, h9owever, the laws are frequently disregarded, and the legal rights of individuals are quite commonly disrespected. After seeing a number of Swedish cases, I find it fair to presume that it was the use of narcotics by the child that was in this case the demonizing factor, whereby the court chose to sentence the man for sexually assaulting a drug addict, rather than raping a child.

Swedish courts frequently find excuses especially to disregard the law of statutory rape. In a recent case, an 18-year old man who raped a 12 year old girl was freed, because the man was, according to the court ‘only six years older than the child he had intercourse with.’ In other cases the courts have based their decisions on the victim seeming ‘mature for her age.’

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Shit talk! Sweden is the most just country in the world! When you write about the 18 year old raping the 12 years old it was not rape but the 12 year old agreed to have sex with him. There is no law against sex in Sweden or anywhere exept muslim countries.

The court decision is reasonable not because the girl was a drug addict but because drug addicts are by nature such people that they engage in sex, and especially with people they get their drugs from. It is only fair that courts take this into account.

Thank you for commenting on the post. I want to assure you that I respect your opinion, and I am not trying to talk back at you.

That said, I feel I need to point out what statutory rape means. Statutory rape means that all sex with a minor is a rape, a premise that a child is not capable of giving consent to sexual relations. This means that there can be no such thing as mutual agreement to have sex with a child. Even if a child were the one to initiate sexual contact, it is by law – and by most moral standards – the obligation of the adult involved to recognize that he alone is the person who has the power to determine what it will lead to, and he alone is responsible of what happens to the child.

Simply put, sexual contact in any form with children is illegal, regardless of how the child may have acted, for whatever reason, as an apparently willing participant.

The concept of statutory rape is based on children being fundamentally and without exception non-sexual beings. It becomes pointless when courts or communities start making exceptions, be it for demonization of the child on account of her narcotics addiction, apparent consent, community standards, or empathy towards the rapist.

Since the law in Sweden, as in most western countries, defines sexual relations with children rape by definition, News of Sweden will without exception refer to the crime committed as rape and the perpetrators as rapists.

I know you are going to erase this and that only shows what kind of person you are. You are shit and you talk shit. It is clear that this is only for writing bad things about Sweden and it is clear that you hate Sweden. Do you even know Sweden? I have lived here all my life and there is nothing wrong with swedish laws and you are only making this up to hurt sweden.

If you have something to say why don’t you come and say it in Swedish and see what happens. If you know so much about sweden you should know swedish. That you write in english only proves that you don’t know what you talk of. These are shit talk about things there is no need to spread out to the world even if they were true.

I totally agree with Britta, as even if you are trying to use logical and widely (outside Sweden) spread arguments, you are still missing one huge point.

To be admissible, your point of view need a bit of background info, your blog purpose, and… come on! fill up that “About” page for the sake of the Internet community.

(The rest of the comment is an angry, personal attack I have chosen to delete because it adds nothing to what has already been said above.)

NewsOf Sweden answers: The fact that you are subscribing to a view that a drug dealer is free to rape small children he has made addicts does illuminate my point of view, and is an instance of the negative in the Swedish Society and culture which you Swedes deny and do not talk about. Just like you are doing.

This blog is about reporting selected and relevant Swedish news to balance out the Swedish self-promotion and approval seeking, and to give an international interpretation to the Swedish news whenever I find the Swedish media have failed to report them in sufficient depth. It is due to this objective that the sample of news taken up on this site is naturally negative.

As you pointed out, my views are valid outside Sweden, while the Swedes hold differing views of their own. This is a proof that my main objective, to explain why the swedish justice by international standards is unjust, is working.”